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The biopic stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who revealed the mass surveillance of private communications by the National Security Agency. The photos released from the set show Gordon-Levitt as Snowden in military uniform. Snowden was in the US army reserves for five months before being discharged in 2004. He told the Guardian he left after breaking both his legs in a training exercise.

Snowden was recently the subject of Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour, which picked up this year’s Oscar for best documentary. The plot of Stone’s film follows Snowden as arrives at his decision to reveal the extent of the NSA’s snooping to Poitras and former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald. Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto will play Greenwald, while Tom Wilkinson has signed on as the Guardian’s defence and intelligence correspondent Ewan MacAskill.